Differences with LN so far

Feb 6, 2024 9:56 PM

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SleepDeprivation said:
WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE LN AND THE FIRST 5 EPISODES OF THE ANIME

I just want to discuss this somewhere because I after getting to episode 3 I BINGED the whole of the LN that is out in English so far and almost everything has been very faithful to the LN other than a few key things.

To honest I like the anime changes to Alicia. Alicia is supposably the heroine of the anime. Hating someone just because they have black hair, and calling them a demon lord every chance they get in my eyes makes Alicia the villainess instead. The shadow that looms over Yumielia. Plus the curiosity Alicia has about Yumielia being Demon Lord might give her a different sense of character. I don't think it change the story into something new.

Feb 6, 2024 10:03 PM

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SleepDeprivation said:
WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE LN AND THE FIRST 5 EPISODES OF THE ANIME

I just want to discuss this somewhere because I after getting to episode 3 I BINGED the whole of the LN that is out in English so far and almost everything has been very faithful to the LN other than a few key things.

To honest I like the anime changes to Alicia. Alicia is supposably the heroine of the anime. Hating someone just because they have black hair, and calling them a demon lord every chance they get in my eyes makes Alicia the villainess instead. The shadow that looms over Yumielia. Plus the curiosity Alicia has about Yumielia being Demon Lord might give her a different sense of character. I don't think it change the story into something new.

@Moppit Yeah I don't necessarily think it is bad, it's just a very drastic change and I'm wondering how they will keep it from changing the course of the story. Unless they actually will change the story, which might not be bad depending upon how they write it. It just has me very curious.

Feb 6, 2024 10:11 PM

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SleepDeprivation said:
@Moppit Yeah I don't necessarily think it is bad, it's just a very drastic change and I'm wondering how they will keep it from changing the course of the story. Unless they actually will change the story, which might not be bad depending upon how they write it. It just has me very curious.

Really don't think it will change so drastically it will be another story. They can make some creative differences to improve the original but they have to keep somewhat honest to the source. I have seen animes some of the characters is nothing like the ones I read in the LN. The story was still the same.

Feb 6, 2024 10:31 PM

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Having not read the LN I like these changes. Unless it turns out Alicia is another reincarnator it doesn’t seem to make much sense to me that she would hate Yumiella just as a prejudice, she’s meant to be this sweeter than sweet heroine in the game world after all

Feb 6, 2024 10:39 PM

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SleepDeprivation said:
@Moppit Yeah I don't necessarily think it is bad, it's just a very drastic change and I'm wondering how they will keep it from changing the course of the story. Unless they actually will change the story, which might not be bad depending upon how they write it. It just has me very curious.

Really don't think it will change so drastically it will be another story. They can make some creative differences to improve the original but they have to keep somewhat honest to the source. I have seen animes some of the characters is nothing like the ones I read in the LN. The story was still the same.

@Moppit I mean her disliking Yumiella is kind of important to the story. I can imagine ways they can change it without straying too far from the source, but it's still going to be a change to the overall story and it won't be small.

Feb 6, 2024 11:16 PM

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Having not read the LN I like these changes. Unless it turns out Alicia is another reincarnator it doesn’t seem to make much sense to me that she would hate Yumiella just as a prejudice, she’s meant to be this sweeter than sweet heroine in the game world after all

@pandacyborg yeah, I dont dislike this take on the character. Its just a drastic change and i wonder how it will affect the story. Also I would recommend reading the novels! Only 3 are out in English so far but they are really fun reads! I'm pretty sure this whole season will only be the first novel.

Feb 7, 2024 1:58 AM

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Good change, if only they also make the princes more bearable.

Feb 7, 2024 5:20 AM

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Understandable, report us about differences in the future if they change anything else, have a great day

Feb 7, 2024 8:01 AM

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I read a bit of the manga and so far except for the beginning of episode 1 it’s the same. The black blob is how she sees her in the manga. I know MAL says it’s based on the LN but maybe it’s actually based on the manga.

Feb 8, 2024 10:26 AM

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Q73POWER said:
I read a bit of the manga and so far except for the beginning of episode 1 it’s the same. The black blob is how she sees her in the manga. I know MAL says it’s based on the LN but maybe it’s actually based on the manga.

Most anime draw from both the Light Novel & their manga adaptations, so it's possible that it's a combination of the two.

Feb 8, 2024 10:59 AM

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Not exactly a major change, & it's not something that makes me want to say the adaptation is bad, but in the Light Novel, when Yumiella turns down the offer of marrying Prince Edwin, the Queen suggests the possibility of adopting Yumiella into the Royal family regardless of whether or not Yumiella married the prince, but didn't formally propose it because she knew Yumiella would turn her down. In spite of everything the Queen tells Yumiella to think of her as a mother, regardless of everything.

Like I said, the fact that they didn't adapt this in the anime isn't offensive to me, but it would have been nice to see. Regardless of the changes, in the anime & Light Novel, the King & Queen are really awesome in the empathy & kindness they show Yumiella (especially the Queen). It makes me wonder how Prince Edwin fell off in spite of that. lol.

Feb 9, 2024 8:56 PM

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I think the biggest issue with Alicia's attitude change is how they'll explain / handle vol 1 ending spoiler

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Feb 9, 2024 9:19 PM

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@Thang YES! This is EXACTLY what I'm wondering about

Feb 11, 2024 10:06 AM

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SleepDeprivation said:
@Moppit I mean her disliking Yumiella is kind of important to the story. I can imagine ways they can change it without straying too far from the source, but it's still going to be a change to the overall story and it won't be small.

While she's not as much of a hateful bigot in the anime, & while she has apologized for her false accusation of Yumiella, she doesn't seem to like or really trust her either (she may no longer believe Yumiella's the Demon Lord, but she is still cautious of her) & they're far from being friends or allies. With that being the case, there's still not a lot that has been changed from the Light Novel, concerning her character in the anime, so I imagine it won't drastic change the sequence of events going forward.

Feb 12, 2024 8:32 AM

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They are just following the manga version of Alicia, who ALSO sees her as evil blob of darkness and is not prejudiced at all.

Sadly, while very good, the manga is slow paced and have many hiatuses, so we still not even close to the part when she goes irredeemable and do the

Anyway, I hate most "Heroine Bad" trope from Otome Villainess Isekais, so I am glad we moving past that on this story version.

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Feb 13, 2024 9:40 AM

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Interesting. I'll pick up the LN once the anime ends so I could see which version of the story is better

Feb 13, 2024 11:56 AM

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As a novel reader Alicia's humanization and the at least basic attempts to tone down the idiot capture targets, I'm really curious as to where this is going to go. The first arc in the novel is not only quite short but also ends.... in a rather grim fashion.

Feb 13, 2024 4:36 PM

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As a novel reader Alicia's humanization and the at least basic attempts to tone down the idiot capture targets, I'm really curious as to where this is going to go. The first arc in the novel is not only quite short but also ends.... in a rather grim fashion.

Unless you're talking about the web novel not the light novel

Feb 16, 2024 10:30 AM

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Unless you're talking about the web novel not the light novel

@SleepDeprivation vol 4 light spoiler

Feb 16, 2024 11:05 AM

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Thang said:

@SleepDeprivation vol 4 light spoiler

@Thang Same! I'm still waiting for volume 4 to be available on Google Play Books.

Feb 18, 2024 1:42 AM

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Yeah, like someone else said, this is more based off the manga than the LN. I'm not sure if it's because the author has had time to review and reconsider choices made or if editorial oversight is preventing them from going full edgelord, but it seems the farther away from the WN we go, the better off we are. The anime's first episode already did a solid job giving some degree of characterization to the original MCs, which they sorely needed. The only issue of relying on the manga is that we're already about to hit the edge of what the manga has covered. Maybe they can get the mangaka to help with the storyboard.

Regarding the ending, I don't think there will be any major changes from the LN.

Mar 22, 2024 7:02 AM

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seems like the original plot was actually interesting unlike this bland no flavour adaption

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Mar 22, 2024 8:26 AM

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They are following the manga version for Alicia

Mar 26, 2024 9:42 AM

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The changed the whole damn ending bro, we ain't getting a second season 😭

Mar 26, 2024 11:36 AM

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That is such a goated changes
I really hate it how alicia is almost never bullied by anyone even though she's an otome game protagonist
And her being extremely racist and ignorant would make it worse tbh

Mar 26, 2024 12:55 PM

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can somebody explain me the changes in the ending between anime and LN? i don't mind being spoiled (since this isn't going to have a season 2 tbh) and i want to know the details about how this continues in the novel.

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